November 22, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Amazon Web Services (AWS - http://aws.amazon.com/) has announced the public beta of Amazon CloudFront, it was reported recently. CloudFront is a new web service for content delivery which allows users to “distribute content using a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds”.
According to the company, CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go policy with “no up-front commitments, no long-term contracts and pricing”, works “seamlessly” with other AWS services such as Amazon S3. The initial release has a number of features that differ from many traditional methods of content delivery.
Amazon’s solution allows users to deliver files stored in Amazon S3 through CloudFront edge locations using a single API. Users must make the objects stored in Amazon S3 publicly readable. The API will return a new domain name to include in web pages or applications. When a request for an object is made using the domain name, users are automatically routed to the nearest edge location used by Amazon CloudFront.
Available since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. Users can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as needs demand. AWS leverages Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure, that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s $15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure.
